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Staff Engineer, Backend & Data
San Francisco, California, United States
$168k-$230k/yr HybridFull Time
Trial Library
Trial Library: AI-platform for clinical trial recruitment and patient navigation.
8+ YOE8+ years backend experience; staff-level ownership; strong AWS, AI tooling usage; healthcare domain interest; HIPAA experience a plus.
AWS, Python, Typescript, React, PostgreSQL, Drizzle, Terraform, Lambda, Fargate, SQS, RDS
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Staff Backend Engineer
New York City or San Francisco
$250k-$300k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Town
Town: AI-powered productivity assistant that automates workplace workflows.
Experienced backend engineer with production experience scaling distributed systems, LLM/agent infrastructure, workflow orchestration, and defining technical direction in fast-moving startups.
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Staff Backend Engineer (Rails)
San Francisco or Remote
$180k-$220k/yr HybridFull Time
Tread
Tread: AI platform for construction material logistics and fleet dispatching.
Strong Rails or backend framework experience, systems thinking, ownership, AI-assisted coding tools, ability to design scalable architectures.
Rails, Postgres, REST, React, Flutter, AWS
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Staff Backend Engineer - Device Security
San Mateo, California, United States
$200k-$300k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Verkada
Verkada: Sells integrated AI-powered cloud physical security hardware and software.
8+ YOEBS/MS in CS/Engineering; 8+ years building Go/Python microservices on AWS with on-call experience; strong backend systems and architecture knowledge; familiarity with temporal, k8s, Docker, Redis, DynamoDB, Postgres, IAM, S3; IoT and security experience preferred.
Go, Python, AWS, temporal, k8s, Docker, Redis, DynamoDB, Postgres, IAM, S3
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Staff Backend Engineer
San Francisco, California, United States
$220k-$270k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Arena Club
Arena Club: Digital marketplace and vaulting service for sports collectibles
8+ YOE8+ years backend experience, strong Node.js/TypeScript/Postgres skills, observability (Datadog), AWS and Terraform experience, marketplace/eCommerce background, familiarity with AI coding tools, and leadership/mentorship ability.
Node.js, TypeScript, Redis, Postgres, BullMQ, Claude Code, Cursor, Datadog, AWS, S3, SNS, SQS, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes (EKS), Python
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Staff Backend Engineer
San Francisco, California, United States
$224k-$284k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Atoms
Atoms: Building robotics and software to automate physical world industries.
8+ YOE8+ years building backend systems with Java/Go, experience with PostgreSQL/MongoDB/Redis, cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure), RESTful APIs, microservices, containers (Docker/Kubernetes), CI/CD, and mentoring experience.
Java, Go, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, AWS, GCP, Azure, RESTful APIs, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD
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Staff Backend Engineer
San Francisco, California, United States
$224k-$284k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Atoms
Atoms: Building specialized industrial robots and physical AI systems.
8+ YOE8+ years building backend systems; proficiency in Java or Go; experience with PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis; cloud experience (AWS/GCP/Microsoft Azure); strong knowledge of RESTful APIs, microservices, distributed systems; Docker/Kubernetes and CI/CD experience; mentoring experience.
Java, Go, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, AWS, GCP, Microsoft Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD
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Staff Backend Engineer, Offerwall
San Francisco, California, United States
$200k-$261k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Unity
UnityNYSE: U: Provides software for creating real-time 3D interactive content.
Staff-level backend engineer with technical leadership experience, large-scale distributed systems expertise, Go proficiency, gRPC knowledge, observability and messaging experience, and cross-team mentorship skills.
Go, gRPC, OpenRTB
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Senior/Staff Backend Engineer
New York or San Francisco
$170k-$220k/yr HybridFull Time
Casap
Casap: Building an AI-native disputes automation and fraud prevention platform with a mission to reduce fraud and streamline workflow for financial institutions.
6+ YOE6+ years in software development; at least 2 years with Go or Java in production; platform team/API/background services; end-to-end feature ownership; strong problem-solving and data structures knowledge; mentoring and technical leadership; strong communication.
Go, Java, CI/CD, microservices, backend development
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Senior/Staff Backend Engineer
New York City or San Francisco
OnsiteFull Time
Lighthouse
Lighthouse: Technology-driven platform for U.S. immigration and visa services.
5+ YOE5+ years building and operating production backend systems; strong in Python and TypeScript; experience with PostgreSQL, GraphQL, serverless, async and event-driven architectures; familiarity with LLMs and integrations (Slack, Linear, HubSpot, Front).
Python, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, GraphQL, Slack, Linear, HubSpot, Front, CRDTs, LLMs, serverless
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Staff Backend Engineer, Internal Products
San Francisco, California, United States
$200k-$250k/yr HybridFull Time
Twelve Labs
Twelve Labs: AI foundation models for video search and human-like understanding.
Experienced backend engineer with strong Python or Go skills, system design, building zero-to-one internal products, working with large unstructured datasets, and full-stack capability.
Python, Go, Claude Code
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Staff Backend Software Engineer
Sunnyvale, California, United States
$210k-$314k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Carbon
Carbon: Manufacturer of industrial 3D printers and advanced polymer materials.
8+ YOE8+ years building and operating production backend services; deep Linux and networking fundamentals; experience with OS provisioning, reliability, and mentoring; bachelor's in CS/Engineering or equivalent.
Linux, systemd, Bazel, MQTT, Python, Go, Node, TypeScript, C++
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Backend Staff Software Engineer
Foster City, California, United States
$146k-$234k/yr HybridFull Time
Visa
VisaNYSE: V: Global payment technology facilitating electronic funds transfers.
5+ YOE5+ years software engineering; web or mobile apps; leadership experience; strong Java/C/C++; collaboration across teams.
Java, C++, C#, HTML, Angular, React, Kubernetes, Docker
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Sr Staff Engineer Backend
Los Angeles or Santa Clara or Tustin or Dallas
$99k-$185k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Lendistry
Lendistry: Technology-enabled lender providing capital to small businesses.
7+ YOE7+ years backend, distributed systems, microservices; technical leadership; collaboration across product, data, and compliance; AI-assisted development familiarity.
Java, Kotlin, Scala, Go, C#, TypeScript, REST, gRPC, OAuth2, JWT, AWS, CI/CD, AI tools, Copilot
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Staff Backend Engineer (Streaming and AI Infrastructure)
Mountain View or Seattle
$152k-$282k/yr HybridFull Time
Coupang
CoupangNYSE: CPNG: Provides online retail, grocery delivery, and video streaming services.
4+ YOEBachelor's in CS/EE/Math; 4+ years backend development; Java and Spring; AWS; distributed systems experience.
Java, Spring Framework, AWS, Cassandra, TiDB, DynamoDB, Kafka, SQS, JVM tuning
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Staff Backend Software Engineer
Sunnyvale or Mountain View
$265k-$311k/yr HybridFull Time
General Motors
General MotorsNYSE: GM: Manufactures and sells automobiles and automotive parts globally.
8+ YOEBachelor's degree and 8 years, or master's degree and 6 years, plus backend Java/Kotlin, distributed systems, APIs, databases, cloud, CI/CD, testing, and security experience.
Java, Kotlin, RESTful APIs, AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), CI/CD, NoSQL
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Member of Technical Staff, Backend
San Francisco or New York City or London
$250k-$500k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Mercor
Mercor: Connecting expert human intelligence with frontier AI model development.
8+ YOE8+ years backend engineering experience with 3+ years at senior level; deep expertise in distributed systems, service architecture, data modeling, API design; experience owning architecture, leading migrations, mentoring senior engineers; strong communication.
Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot
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Staff Cloud Backend Developer
Palo Alto, California, United States
$170k-$210k/yr OnsiteFull Time
ALSO
ALSO: Developing vertically integrated small electric vehicles for urban mobility.
10+ YOE10+ years building and scaling backend systems, experience with remote device lifecycle, API and schema design, event-driven architectures, security/authentication, and cloud infrastructure.
AWS, Lambda, ECR, ECS, DynamoDB, S3, IAM, REST, GraphQL, gRPC, JSON-RPC, Kafka, Redis, SQS, SNS, OAuth2, OID, JWT, SAML, mTLS, MQTT, CoAP
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Member of Technical Staff - Backend & Infrastructure
San Francisco, California, United States
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Janitor AI
Janitor AI: Consumer AI platform for interactive roleplay and storytelling.
Product-minded backend engineer able to diagnose and fix distributed system issues; experience with Kubernetes, distributed systems, GPUs or similar systems is helpful; strong problem solving and ownership.
Kubernetes, AWS, WebSocket, GPU
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Staff Backend Engineer - Ads Formats
Toronto or Kitchener-Waterloo or San Francisco or London or New York City
$191k-$262k/yr HybridFull Time
Faire
Faire: Online wholesale marketplace connecting independent retailers with unique brands.
7+ YOE7+ years software engineering experience with 3+ years as a technical leader; deep expertise building low-latency, highly available ad/content delivery systems; strong system design, AI-native tooling experience, and cross-functional leadership.
Kotlin, Java 16, Hibernate, Guice, Jersey, Elasticsearch, FAISS, Redis, DynamoDB, Protocol Buffers, HTTP, JSON, AWS, Kubernetes, Buildkite, Datadog
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